4 June 2021 – Ground frost on Dartmoor
I couldn’t quite believe these pictures of a ground frost on Dartmoor yesterday morning at first and had to check the temperature at Exeter …
Frost
7-8 May 2021 – Minimum temperatures, sunshine & rainfall
A surprisingly sunny day yesterday, and although there were a couple of the very lightest of showers in the early afternoon, the day was …
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April 2021 – Frost
Aboyne in Aberdeenshire was the frostiest place in IONA recording 25 air frosts in the 30 nights of April 2021. Probably a local record, …
Misleading BBC graphics
You can’t say that Christopher Blanchett didn’t mention a touch of frost across the northeast of Scotland in his forecast, although I think that …
Tonights frost
It is impossible to say which particular NWP model the BBC are using to forecast the overnight minima across the country but it’s bemusing …
April 2021 – Latest frost count
I notice in this lunchtimes weather forecast on BBC One Matt Taylor produced a table of the total number of air frosts so far …
Frost and snow so far this April
Here is an update on the latest climate statistics for nights of air frost this month and the number of hourly observation snow was …
10-11 Feb 2021 – extreme temperatures
A minimum of -19.7°C was recorded overnight [18-06] at Altnaharra. As half expected this has been eclipsed by one of -21.8°C from, Braemar announced …
Braemar v Altnaharra
I can’t monitor the temperature tonight at Braemar – because the Met Office only allows it’s paying customers to see them, so much for …
10 Feb 2021 – 12 UTC anomalies and temperatures
Another bitterly cold day across IONA with 12 UTC anomalies as low as -13.3°C at Altnaharra, and typically between -6 to -9°C below the …
Latest winter frost count
It is very close at the top of this years frost count table with the Aboyne frost hollow in the number one spot with …
The Great Freeze of 1900
The Great Freeze of 1900 – this is a new one on me. I saw mention of it in a graph of mortality rates …
8-9 January 2021 minimum temperatures
It was a close run thing but Dalhwinnie ended up being the coldest place last night. Who knows what the temperature would have got …
Another sharp/hard/severe frost at Glascarnoch
There was another sharp/hard/severe frost again at Loch Glascarnoch overnight with a minimum 0f -8.5°C [18-06] over 12 cm of snow they still have. …
Cold start to 2021
A dozen or sites just about managed to scrape an ice day on the strength of these 06-18 maximum temperatures yesterday. It was followed …
So this is what they mean by an “early frost”
I know we have a bit of a snow cover at the moment in Strathpeffer but the model the Met Office use for their …
As low as -6°C across the Highlands
A cold night across the snow covered Highlands of Sutherland and Ross-shire which the great and powerful Oz decided for some reason to exclude …
Another lovely autumnal morning across the Highlands
A large range of temperatures across the country this morning, with minima no lower than 11°C across the Islands, but close to freezing in …
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Rain in the south another frost for Scotland
Another beautiful clear and sunny, if not cold start to the day in the Highlands, we certainly need a good day to make up …
Alex could have always done a quick McKenzie in his head…
When is -6.6°C a touch of frost? When the Met Office say it is
Record cold night of 12/13th December 1981 at Shawbury
A look back at the record cold night of the 12/13th December 1981 at Shawbury, and how it may have been even colder if thickening cloud and wind hadn’t arrived late in the night.